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The process of providing preventive dental care: A grounded theory study of dentists’, dental teams’ and patients’ experiences.
Published 2012-07-03Background: This study was built on a previous Australian randomized controlled trial. Intervention practices in the trial were provided with evidence-based preventive protocols to guide their treatment of dental caries. ...Open AccessThesis -
Progress in stem cell research and the role of law Is it time to relax or tighten the legislation on human embryo research?
Published 2011-01-01Over the past decade, human embryo research has generated both enormous scientific interest and extensive public debate. In response to this, Australia passed two Acts in 2002: the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 ...Open AccessArticle -
Promoting ethics across the healthcare sector: what can codes achieve?
Published 2020Over the course of the twentieth century, numerous national and international ethics “codes” have been developed. While such codes serve important substantive and symbolic functions, they can also pose challenges. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
Propaganda or cost of innovation? The high price of new drugs
Published 2015-06-16Ever wonder how much it costs to develop a new drug? The independent, non-profit research group, The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, estimates US$2.6 billion, almost double the centre’s previous estimate a ...Open AccessArticle -
Propaganda or the cost of innovation? Challenging the high price of new drugs.
Published 2016-03-01Concern is growing about the implications of rising drug prices for individuals and health systems around the world. With little transparency around the costs of drug development, Narcyz Ghinea and colleagues call for ...Open AccessArticle -
Proposed changes to the function of the Mental Health Act will erode patient rights
Published 2010-01-01Imagine for a moment you ind yourself arrested in some foreign clime – Queensland, for example. You are told you have transgressed some northern law and are looking at several weeks inside. You are anxious, to ...Open AccessArticle -
“Protect consumers from gene tests”
Published 2009-07-08A House of Lords committee has said the private genetic testing industry should be more tightly controlled. In this week's Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Ainsley Newson, senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the University ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Protocol for the process evaluation of a complex intervention designed to increase the use of research in health policy and program organisations (the SPIRIT study)
Published 2014-01-01Background: Process evaluation is vital for understanding how interventions function in different settings, including if and why they have different effects or do not work at all. This is particularly important in trials ...Open AccessArticle -
PSA testing for men at average risk of prostate cancer.
Published 2017-01-01Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing of men at normal risk of prostate cancer is one of the most contested issues in cancer screening. There is no formal screening program, but testing is common - arguably a practice ...Open AccessArticle -
Psychiatry and the ‘Gay Holocaust’ – the lessons of Jill Soloway’s ‘Transparent’
Published 2016-04-07Aims: To consider issues relevant to psychiatry raised by the television series, ‘Transparent’. Conclusions: Psychiatry’s disturbing history regarding the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community ...Open AccessArticle -
Psychiatry, genocide and the National Socialist State: lessons learnt, ignored and forgotten.
Published 2017-01-01The genocide of European Jews perpetrated by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany and its satellites was a distinctly modern event. The bureaucratised and industrialised nature of the Nazi plan (the Endlösung ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public education and organ donation: untested assumptions and unexpected consequences
Published 2007-01-01While the number of individuals able to benefit from transplantation increases with technological developments, donation rates remain insufficient to cater for demand. A universal response to the insufficient number of ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Ethics and a Status for Pets as Person-Things: Revisiting the Place of Animals in Urbanized Societies.
Published 2013-01-01Within the field of medical ethics, discussions related to public health have mainly concentrated on issues that are closely tied to research and practice involving technologies and professional services, including ...Open AccessArticle -
Public health ethics and More-than-Human solidarity
Published 2013-01-01This article contributes to the literature on One Health and public health ethics by expanding the principle of solidarity. We conceptualize solidarity to encompass not only practices intended to assist other people, but ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Published 2016-04-01Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues inherent in the practice of ...Open AccessBook -
Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
Published 2016-04-01Introducing public health ethics poses two special challenges. First, it is a relatively new field that combines public health and practical ethics . Its unfamiliarity requires considerable explanation, yet its scope and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public health ethics: informing better public health practice (peer reviewed editorial)
Published 2012-01-01Public health ethics has emerged and grown as an independent discipline over the last decade. It involves using ethical theory and empirical analyses to determine and justify the right thing to do in public health. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Research
Published 2016-04-01Having a scientific basis for the practice of public health is critical. Research leads to insight and innovations that solve health problems and is therefore central to public health worldwide. For example, in the United ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information to the general public: a focus group study
Published 2016-02-06Background Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective ...Open AccessArticle -
Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information: a focus group study
Published 2016-12-01Background: Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective: ...Open AccessArticle